The military voting mess of 2010 isn’t over. In some states, ballots continue to roll in. Whether or not these late ballots will be counted remains to be seen.

I have learned that voters deployed across Iraq and Afghanistan received ballots far too late to be effective. The MOVE Act of 2009 was designed to fix this problem, but may have failed. One reason for the failure: open contempt inside the Department of Justice to the mandates of the new law.

It will be up to the new Congress to examine what happened in 2010 and to implement a remedy that prevents the same mess in 2012, and ending the DOJ monopoly on enforcing the law should top the list. Congress should give soldiers and sailors the right to sue when ballots don’t mail on time. DOJ bureaucrats can no longer be trusted as exclusive stewards of military voting rights.

PJ Media has extensively covered the military voting mess of 2010 and how DOJ dropped the ball over and over again. From failing to provide the states with written guidance on the new law, to failing to detect when states failed to mail ballots weeks late, disenfranchised soldiers can thank Eric Holder for late or uncounted ballots. Whatever actions DOJ took in 2010 to protect military voters only came after Senator Cornyn and the media were breathing down Holder’s neck. And even those efforts came late in the game.

My sources tell me that the responsible officials inside DOJ think the criticism from the public and from Congress is unfair. In other words, they believe their own spin. The bureaucrats actually believe that because they were making phone calls, instead of litigating in court, they were “aggressively enforcing” the law. They think waiting until October 22 to file a lawsuit in Illinois — even though the media, including PJM, broke the story on October 7 that ballots weren’t mailing — constitutes aggressive enforcement. They were working hard, talking on the phone, and debating internally, they claim.

Worst of all, bureaucrats inside DOJ expressly crafted DOJ litigation decisions with open contempt for congressional mandates. Congress declared that ballots must go out 45 days before the election. I have learned through multiple sources with direct knowledge that DOJ bureaucrats responsible for military voting explicitly argued repeatedly that the law could be satisfied by giving overseas ballots a total of 45 days, even if they were mailed weeks after the deadline. In other words, they had the power to disregard the explicit command of Congress, so they did. This is the smoking gun that Congress can reveal in hearings next year.

Why would they treat the law with such contempt?

Firstly, they disagree with the law. If Congress were to put particular DOJ managers under oath, they would find they have been wedded to a “30 days is enough time” fable forever. They didn’t like being rebuked by the MOVE Act’s expansion to 45 days.

Secondly, these same DOJ officials are terrified of litigation. Instead of aggressively defending the soldier’s right to vote, they aggressively defend their safe, quiet, unnoticed nook where they never have to risk losing an argument in court. They are more afraid of losing an argument than of a soldier in Afghanistan losing their right to vote.

Thirdly, they believe in 80 percent solutions for voters who give 100 percent, and sometimes more. Congress may hear from former DOJ employees who tell me they would testify that the DOJ bureaucrat in charge of military voting spoke repeatedly of half-solutions. The bureaucrat explicitly believed that some military voters could be disenfranchised, but as long as “most” had a “reasonable” chance to participate, DOJ washed their hands of it.

These bureaucrats can stick fingers in their ears and hum all they want, but here are the inescapable facts: Congress is going to get to the bottom of the mess of 2010. Cold hard data are going to be available about whether or not soldiers were disenfranchised by the inaction of DOJ. The story of the military voting mess did not end with the November 2 election.

Incoming subcommittee chairs like Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina are the right people to get to the bottom of it all. Nobody cares more about men and women in uniform than Joe Wilson. This seasoned lawyer knows how to detect and cut through administration spin — he is a “lie” detector second to none. But most of all, as an Army vet, he knows what it means to serve, and his son Alan is also a lawyer and Iraq combat vet. Wilson is the right person to ensure the military voting mess of 2010 does not repeat in 2012.

Of course, Senator John Cornyn has also experienced DOJ spin all year long. He has seen his requests rebuffed, over and over, for basic information from DOJ such as which states were in compliance with the MOVE Act and which were not. The reason DOJ never told him is that they didn’t know themselves. Cornyn has blocked the deputy attorney general nominee, and his hold should stay in place contingent on DOJ cooperation with congressional oversight.

Naturally, members of the House Judiciary Committee will be well-armed for Justice oversight hearings, and have experienced firsthand Eric Holder’s stonewalling.

The Election Assistance Commission will be gathering data on how many ballots were mailed and what the successful return rates were. Private groups such as the Military Voter Protection Project, run by former DOJ lawyer Eric Eversole, are going to data mine the effectiveness of DOJ enforcement activity by examining actual ballot return patterns.

Simply, DOJ will endure congressional and private sector scrutiny on their effectiveness like they never have before. No amount of slick spin will be able to gloss over the raw numbers. Empty rhetoric is not as trendy as it was in 2008.

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big bob

This is one of the real travesties to emerge from the Great Awakening in the 2010 election. I am sure it has been there for many others, but only now are we getting a sense of its depth and breadth. Additionally, the extant contempt from entrenched bureaucrats leaves many of us breathless. This, along with the many election day voting set-ups, must demand our full attention. Our ability to vote is being targeted daily, and the right to pick our leaders must not be picked off by the left. It’s now out in the open and shame on US if we do not cut it’s ugly head off immediately.

Let’s see if they claim executive privilege. Then we’ll see if the senators, even the Dem ones, decide to exert their authority. After all, if the Dems do, they look better to the public, and if Obama’s poll numbers go low enough, a primary challenge can happen for 2012.

Would they throw Obama under the bus? Well, that would require some large amounts of popcorn! The wheels on the bus go bump-bump-bump!

This is just infuriating. The DOJ attorney primarily responsibile for this non-enforcement policy is Becky Wertz from the Civil Rights Division’s Voting Section. She needs to be hauled before Congress and made to answer — under oath — for her flagrant disregard of federal law. These folks just don’t get it. But I am confident they soon will, under the guise of congressional oversight.

It appears this Becky Wertz is so entrenched in the bureaucracy — and has worked so long under the veil of anonymity — that she feels she can ignore the law with impunity and enforce only those statutes with which she feels politically comfortable. I suspect she has many colleagues in the Civil Rights Division who harbor the same attitude. But she ought to be genuinely fearful now because Congress and the media are about to publicly expose her big time.

What good would under oath do? According to what I’ve been following with the Panthergate on going travesty, these people have already been lying under oath. It just needs to be a complete investigation, no holds barred, tape the shredded material back together style.

The people also deserve to know publicly the results of those votes that are too late to count in an election. If they voted, we and the candidates they voted for, are entitled to know the results…and let the chips fall where they may.

Are there any races — even down to the state legislative level — in which disenfranchised military votes might have made a difference, to the point where the results may be challenged due to the violations of the law?

Who can forget the Democrat mantra of “every vote should count” during the hanging chad debacle in Florida during the Bush/Gore contest for President.
It seems that, for the Democrat administration in power, every vote should count UNLESS it’s a military vote that would probably go to the Republicans.
That our service men and women, who are risking and giving their lives for this country, should be disenfranchised, is an outrage. Any public servant who has deliberately aided this disenfranchisement should got to jail.

The depths of incompetency in the Obama era are breathtaking. As a Vietnam vet, I can tell you there is no more demoralizing event than to be disenfranchised while in the field by lazy, incompetent bureaucrats sucking up all the benefits they can while ignoring the sacrifices of the armed forces in the field.

This is an absolute disgrace! Why can’t our great leader, Obama, speak out? The truth is we are RULED by a bunch of marxist thugs who have no respect for the U.S. Constitution or our laws. We can either talk this theme to death or we can see that the problem is solved, and quickly. This has gone on for a period of time and it should be dealt with, NOW! To deny our Military a vote is shocking.

Oversite committee will have a whole new meaning come January. If you haven’t already been in touch with your Representives to the Senate and Congress do it now. Tell them that you expect to see Eric Holder in front of the Oversite Committee before mid-year. Remind them, albeit with respect, that the election results are not and endorsment of the Republican party per-say but an overall contempt for how the government has been conducting the peoples business. We expect to see change soon, not down the road but soon. If we see business as usual the same target that ended the careers of some of their fellow members on both sides of the aisle can be painted on their chest. It works, Mitch McConnel finally got the message on earmarks, his e-mail account was overflowing with outraged voters reminding him who is in charge.

Why would anyone be shocked that Holder’s DOJ is clearly selective in it’s actions. It has become an protective arm for the New Black Panthers thugs.

Lets see if the new Republican House Majority can investigate this travisty, ie Becky wertz. Don’t hold your breath as all efforts of the new members as of Nov. 3rd will be focused on funding for their next election.

Perhaps the Iraq government can provide the USA some guidance on holding fair elections.

Hopefully the new Congress will take it’s oversite responsibilities far more seriously in this situation as well as in every other policy they institute by law. Perhaps too they will devote themselves to greater debate and consideration before they pass laws that are unfunded mandates or a truly hollow political action to the group making noise at the time. How else can we interpret a Congress that will pass laws and never bother to audit the effectiveness of their actions. I do think that military personnel should be able to sue their state government for disenfranchisement — I also think we should hold Congress liable – if the law required the DOJ or the military to provide requirements/guidelines to the states did members of Congress just “know” that this would be done satisfactorily – Hey, Congress, I know it would be more work, but how about making sure your laws are implemented and actually serve our interests. There may be other ways to handle voting rather than requiring States to review and possibly change their laws.

Is it that the DOJ and/or the Pentagon do not want to be responsible for devising guidelines that may be legally challenged by States.

I am so tried of hearing explanations from those in the US Department of Justice that sound like spoiled high schoolers’ excuses for not completing a required assignment. “Oh we didn’t think the non-compliant states needed anything in writing – this is new and we’re having to address challenges that were not anticipated – and besides what about our budget? what about their budget?”

This is insane. Our own DOJ is disenfranchising fellow citizens in this instance, looking the other way in voter intimidation cases and ignoring massive voter fraud in others. Isn’t voting considered a civil right? There should be serious prison time for those involved; and RICO statutes applied to those who support organizations that attempt to manipulate elections, ala Soros.
Lets see if these guys can grow a pair.

Thank you for saying what I was thinking. I hope that the new congress will begin immediate hearings on this and the New Black Panther scandal. As you point out, under Article 1, Section 5 of the Constitution Congress has the power to impeach the POTUS and his officers. This means that Holder can be held accountable if they will just do it.

Democrats simply do not want the military to vote. Period. They don’t like the men and women who stand up and say “I will defend the Constitution of the United States” because as a group, we are less inclined to be looking for the government to defend us. We are looking to defend America.
There should be a conservative effort to help those soldiers who were disenfranchised. Let them sue, in court, for damages, those who were responsible for mailing out the ballots and who simply didn’t do it. It doesn’t matter why, it matters simply that the law was broken, and damages occurred.
I served 22 years in the Army, moved 10 times, five OCONUS tours. The state of Wyoming always managed to get an absentee ballot to me. If Wyoming can do it, every single state can do it.
I will donate to any conservative law office or effort that is willing to take these dirtbags to court.

It’s amazing to be that this story has any traction commpared to the big elephant in the United States. There are 12-15 million illegal aliens inside the United States in a debacle that threatens our democracy far worse than does military voting. Let’s get some priorities here and figure out a way to go after all the bureaucracies, including congress, that are turning the other cheek and saying, “Well, you could never kick out that many people” We are being overwhelmed by a baby boom from the Third World while we allow in, legally and illegally, thousands a months. Who has set up a mandate to allow legal immigration in its thousands? I haven’t. To be against it is to be racist. I wish I could win the lottery. I would sue every municipal, state and Federal agency I could get my hands on in what is so far, the greatest scandal of this new century. This will never end until we do something radical to end it. Our great grand children will spit on our graves.

Agreed James, wholeheartedly but, it all starts with the vote and I hope you agree the armed forces votes are as important as all others How many seats have been kept by the kleptocrats that should not have been.

In MD, just before the primary, I discovered via some research that the state had implemented a little known method whereby the Internet could be used for the military to receive absentee ballots. I checked on my son’s supposed mailed ballot and it had not been sent due to his relocation within Iraq. Apparently the state election board had not got the message out to the county boards and the military as they should have about the new system. I was very angry, so I E-mailed EVERYONE in our legislature, our AG and the Governor. Results started pouring in and I was contacted by my delegate and through him the military. I sent the info to my son, who received his ballot in short order and the state election board sent out a press release to alert everyone about the new system.

As of this election the completed ballot still has to be returned by mail or FAX. I have assurances that legislators are working on Internet voting in MD for our military overseas. If Amazon can secure order info, the MD state government should ask them how to do it and build a similar system for ballots as I told and wrote legislators. I will follow up those promises for 2012.

So what is my point. One very mad old veteran and father of an Army sergeant serving his countrymen by fighting the enemy overseas instead of allowing them on the streets of America kicked some a$$ and got a response. So, I ask, where were the fathers and mothers of America when a$$ kicking time was needed in their state and county. Are the fathers and mothers in Illinois afraid to push their state and local government officials responsible for the ballots. If I had not gotten some results by my E-mails, I would have been in someone’s face. And going to jail just might have got the attention that otherwise was lacking. Our military personal, sacrificing possibly their lives for us, deserve some sacrifice on our part, if it is needed, to see that their rights are secured.

The people are sovereign, not the government; if the people are not willing to standup to government, then they will become servants of government.

Thank you for that post. I am really tired of these people complaining and not calling or notifying their congressperson. If I were a military mom or dad, I would have driven to my congressman’s house.

If people think all is well without their participation until 2012, I’ve got news folks. Right now the Dems are ramping up the Amnesty in tje lame duck. Get your asses off your couch folks and call or write.

Since the offenders here (local, state, DOJ…) were unable in this case to set up Panther thugs with batons to intimidate voters outside polling stations, they did the next best thing by withholding or delaying ballot distribution to our military personnel overseas.

Are we amused at the prospect of Joe “You Lie” Wilson interrogating Holder? Yes but it is enraging that these people thought they could get away with disenfranchising fellow Americans. Their contempt for soldiers’ rights shows you what they think of anyone who belongs to a class of individuals likely to disagree with them. Get to the back of the bus! Now who’re the bigots?

It appears at first glance that there is a ch.42 sec 1983 cause of action available to any soldier whose ballot was improperly delayed…And might there not also be a RICO extension against the state (non)actors and the DOJ pukes for conspiracy to deprive the soldier of his/her voting rights?

Just wondering…
To James May: Of course the US is quite capable of carrying out the deportation of 10 or 12 million people. If Mexico can do it….

I agree with “In a Bunker”: the way to radically decrease voting fraud, is to require proof of citizenship, and proof of identity *at the polling place*.
In Iraq, since proof of identity was/is difficult, to prevent multiple vote fraud, everyone gets ‘inked’ when they vote. Simple, foolproof (almost idiotproof, but we *are* dealing with Congress!) and effective.

Whether or not there is a 42 USC 1983 action is an untested legal theory. It may or may not work. But people are looking for a test case to take DOJ out of the picture in future elections. There will also be legislation introduced in the next Congress to entirely eliminate DOJ from the enforcement monopoly. Congress gets where the problem is now. They are going to pull a Schwartzkopf and pivot right around the problem. Some of you will get the joke.

I wish it were possible to assemble all the military absentee ballots that were mailed out past the deadline… and see to it that each one counts twice.

Unconstitutional, I know, but we need accountability here. If someone can’t be bothered to make sure that our military votes count, I want to make sure that their non-effort backfires in their faces.

Alternatively — and this would no doubt be quite constitutional — how adding some teeth to the MOVE act? I’d advocate an amendment saying that, if a state fails to mail out military absentee ballots on time — FOR ANY REASON — this will be a firing offense for everyone involved, with no questions asked, and a possible prosecution to follow.

Let’s have bureaucrats scrambling to mail out the ballots early, shall we?

Am I to take it that you don’t care if your fellow Americans are denied their Constitutional right to vote? How would you feel about it if it were your rights being denied? I assume that you are an American but your attitude makes me wonder.

The thing is that nobody is “being denied” anything here — it’s just some botch-ups at the state level that caused some delays, and even then it’s genuinely hard to find any reports whatsoever of anybody really being affected. But don’t take my word for it — go ahead and Google or Bing to your heart’s content to find an actual instance of a soldier being affected. This is no more than political BS’ing and yet another example of right wingers trying to make a BFD out of essentially nothing.

If you want to look for examples of real attempts at voter denial, you don’t have to go overseas.

But that story only mentions the one guy and another service person said she saw no problems. After all as long as some military personnel get to vote that’s good enough; they don’t ALL have to vote do they? Let’s not be silly and get stuck on Constitutional issues here! Wait again, here are some more:

How many thousands of NY state service personnel were denied their right to vote because of a supposed mistake? Isn’t it funny how that mistake never happens to democrat constituencies? If voting were disallowed for anyone except military people you guys would be rioting.

But don’t let that stop your efforts to stop the vast right wing conspiracy to tell the truth about the lefts blatant attempt to disenfranchise American servicemen and women. Of course it doesn’t matter how many headlines and other proof I show here, you’ll just dismiss it as right wing lies. That’s the nice thing about being a close minded leftist; you can rationalize and dismiss anything just by saying that it’s BS. That way you don’t have to address the facts.

Also that Washington Times (aka the Moonie Rag) ref was just a right wing editorial without any actual reference to someone, anyone being affected. And that NY Post article is from October 11th and is filled with lots of maybes, but again — surprise, friggin surprise — no specifics. But then again, it was before the election.

I had asked for an example of someone actually being affected, but for your three links, you had one regarding someone from the 2008 election (when, by the way, the White House was under Republican control), one an editorial with no specifics, and another with dire warnings but again with no specifics of someone actually being affected

So as you right wingers tend to say (although usually inappropriately): Fail!

BC, when they do not get the ballots out on time, every one of those voters is, BY DEFINITION, being disenfranchised. I do not have to prove INDIVIDUAL disenfranchisement. It is MASS disenfranchisement.

It takes a certain amount of time to get the ballots to the troops. The closer to the front lines, the more time it takes. They passed the MOVE law with 45 days, not the old 30, because it was determined that 30 days was not enough, if some snafu occurred.

Some of these ballots still had not gone out by Oct 12, and did not for many days after. This was demonstrated in articles on this site, which I KNOW you’ve read. 20 days to go, and THEY STILL HAD NOT GONE OUT YET! It is a matter of record! Do you think any single one of those soldiers actually got to vote?!? Do you think it just magically happens?!? Do you have any idea how it works, how much time it takes?

When I was stationed in Germany, mail took about 8 days to reach me from my family. I was NOT in the mountains of Afghanistan, or patrolling the damned border with Pakistan, or dodging bullets in southern Afghanistan!

You are so busy deriding everything we say, you never stop to consider that we MIGHT just have a legitimate point. You think we are ALWAYS wrong! Do you know what that is called, BC? Rabid, unthinking partisanship. You think you are just so much smarter than all of us. That makes you the most foolish amongst us. And a complete jackass!

Rational people make an observation first, then collect data to see if there really is a pattern before coming to a conclusion. Irrational or people with malicious agendas come to a conclusion first and then go looking for *anything* that might support that conclusion, no matter how much of a reach it might be; and if they still don’t find anything at all, they then resort to fudging and outright lying.

If you truly believe in your political philosophy, you should be able to support it without having to resort to made-up BS. I know libertarians who believe in efficient government, cutting out waste, and giving people and especially children every opportunity to better themselves without resorting to out and out handouts. It’s hard to make fun of stuff like that. I know a friend who’s super patriotic, was in the Navy, but stopped voting Republican about midway through Bush’s term because he couldn’t abide any further all the lies he saw and heard, from what was going on in Iraq to that whole bizarre business with Valerie Plame (who really was a genuine CIA agent). He’s not exactly fond of overall Democratic philosophy, but he puts semi-honesty ahead of gross dishonesty, which has been the GOP’s SOP for a while now.

Such a sweet Neutered Persons Galore. Shows up like a needy Modern Liberal, needing service to its Kick Me sign riveted to it ass. Passive, helpless, used, discarded, self censoring, but nonetheless in need of a moment away from the mundane “work” of being itself.

Vanity. No kidding. Yeah, the abusive vain idol in the White House loves you. As long as you were useful.

Way way down inside,
I gonna give you my love…

Rolled, used and discarded. Mr. President could send you a thank you note. No, not him.

The Pub House investigative Comm. under Issa should bring this up and demand the DOJ beginning now, have military ballots ready by say, Feb. 2012 and sent out. By then,the primaries should be over and ballots set. But, sending them out in Oct.is rife for cheating and non-counts. The real solution will be in 2012, a defeat of Obama and the complete defeat of the Dem socialists left in Congress. Our military deserves better than Holder-Bama dis-respecting them.

The Republican’s MUST propose real election reform. Election fraud in this country is turning us into a banana republic, but the solutions are all so simple –

1. Election officials must be subject to *severe* penalties for failing to get ballots to military on-time, for failing to have enough ballots, for failing to secure polling places from intimidation and those who corrupt the process by “helping” people vote, AND for failing to enforce laws against those illegally vote. In a position of authority, I think *at least* 10 years in prison, no parole. (Police assigned to polling places must be counted as “election officials”, too.)

2. We *must* require ID and proof of a *physical address* to vote — one address. Penalties for voting illegally, including identity theft and multiple voting must be *severe*: 2 or 4 years in prison, no parole. The same as the election cycle.

3. We need a Federally imposed, uniform standard of balloting imposed on all states — they’ve simply become far too corrupt. The electronic machines are the most corrupt game in town, and must be banned–they are little more than rigged slot machines. Even conventional paper ballots have been corrupted beyond redemption.

Case study: How to Guarantee Victory in a Close Race while Covering Your Ass, as they did in the Northeast:
A. Make sure there’s a shortage of real ballots on election day.
B. When the shortage is discovered, ask a judge for emergency permission to keep polls open for “disenfranchised voters” and permission to photocopy ballots.
C. When your candidate is down 1000 votes during the re-count, *find* a missing bag of photocopied ballots.

What could be more simple?

Here’s a solution to all these woes:
1. Every person going to a polling station or government office *must* provide name, proof of address and photo ID to get a ballot — and a warning of the consequences of voter fraud (2 – 4 years in jail).
2. *Everyone* gets *two* paper ballots to fill out, and a third “receipt” copy as a personal record of their vote, in case one of the others gets lost.
3. Each ballot has an identical coded identifier similar to a bar code.
4. Each ballot must be filled out and *mailed* to a **separate** ballot counting station.
5. Ballots must be matched for both identification code and votes at *both* ballot stations to count as one vote.
6. If a ballot fails to match, the voter *must* be contacted to match to his receipt and confirm his vote.
7. Forbid state election officials from certifying an election until all ballots are resolved.

If this takes a few weeks for ballots to be mailed and delivered — so be it. It would eliminate most of the fraud that is now corrupting our entire system of voting. That’s worth the delay. The networks will have to live without election night coverage.

The Republicans better realize that they are on the losing end of any voter fraud game — this is very much in their interest, but more importantly, it’s in the interest of the entire country.

These are very good suggestions but they will not work in the real world. Under these rules, democrats wouldn’t receive more than 30% of the vote. If elections were not fraudulently skewed to democrats, if they weren’t allowed to cheat, they would be a very distant 3rd party.

I wonder how many military absentee ballots were requested; how many were returned; and how many were actually counted?

This problem is a recurring theme. It seems to be getting worse, rather than better, with time. Illinois and New York received a MOVE waiver and still missed their deadlines… probably disenfranchising military votes in the process.

The problem with an internet platform is that it disenfranchises the soliders at the tip of the spear – the Marines, the Special Ops, Rangers, Green Berets, etc. The Marines serving at the embassy in London or Berlin will love an internet system. But it has no use to remotely deployed troops and those at FOBs.

Congress should pass a law authorizing overseas commanders to transport military members who do not get their ballots on time by whatever means possible to minimize time away from the unit (military plane, charter plane, first class airline ticket, etc.) and bill the state for the travel (air fare and Per Diem expenses).

That would ensure military members’ voting rights and punish the offenders, because the states would probably put the pressure on the local officials to get their act together.

What point dimwit? The point that you lefty clowns have a history of keeping servicemen from voting that dates as far back as WWII, which I also found stories on? Funny how you ignore links that prove my case. You losers have been cheating in elections for years and now it is coming out and is getting set to bite you in the butt. The very fact that you are so dismissive of voter fraud and the disenfranchisement of a segment of the voting public just serves as more evidence of your corruption.

The facts are slowly coming to light and you can’t stand it. The people are opening their eyes. Nov. 2, 2010 is just the beginning. Keep telling yourself that the truth won’t be exposed; maybe it’ll help you sleep at night. I won’t bother reading anymore of your posts. If I want to be lied to, I’ll listen to an Obama speech.

This entire administration thinks the answer to anything is to talk it to death, so why not the DOJ over the phone concerning late-mailed ballots? Remember, Obama’s solution to every problem is to preach about it ad nauseum. If the outcome isn’t the one he intended, his excuse is that he didn’t explain it well enough in any of the hundreds of times he talked it to death.

One of the first orders of business that the new Congress should undertake when seated n January should be to draw up article of impeachment for Holder while running investigations at the same time, hell he’s not doing his job anyway so keep him tied up till he is thrown out of office!